Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards: 2006

Critics Choice Award

Date:	9 January
Location:	Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, USA

Best Picture


Winner:
	Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Other Nominees:
	Capote (2005) Cinderella Man (2005) Crash (2004/I) Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) King Kong (2005) Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) Munich (2005) The Constant Gardener (2005) Walk the Line (2005)

Best Actor


Winner:
	Capote (2005) - Philip Seymour Hoffman
Other Nominees:
	Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Heath Ledger Cinderella Man (2005) - Russell Crowe Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) - David Strathairn Hustle & Flow (2005) - Terrence Howard Walk the Line (2005) - Joaquin Phoenix

Best Young Actor


Winner:
	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) - Freddie Highmore
Other Nominees:
	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) - Daniel Radcliffe Millions (2004) - Alex Etel The Squid and the Whale (2005) - Jesse Eisenberg The Squid and the Whale (2005) - Owen Kline

Best Actress


Winner:
	Walk the Line (2005) - Reese Witherspoon
Other Nominees:
	Mrs Henderson Presents (2005) - Judi Dench North Country (2005) - Charlize Theron Pride & Prejudice (2005) - Keira Knightley The Upside of Anger (2005) - Joan Allen (I) Transamerica (2005) - Felicity Huffman

Best Young Actress


Winner:
	War of the Worlds (2005) - Dakota Fanning
Other Nominees:
	Bee Season (2005) - Flora Cross Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) - Emma Watson (II) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) - Georgie Henley The New World (2005) - Q'orianka Kilcher

Best Supporting Actor


Winner:
	Cinderella Man (2005) - Paul Giamatti
Other Nominees:
	Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Jake Gyllenhaal Crash (2004/I) - Matt Dillon (I) Crash (2004/I) - Terrence Howard Syriana (2005) - George Clooney The Upside of Anger (2005) - Kevin Costner

Best Supporting Actress


Winners:
	Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Michelle Williams (I) Junebug (2005) - Amy Adams (III)
Other Nominees:
	A History of Violence (2005) - Maria Bello Capote (2005) - Catherine Keener North Country (2005) - Frances McDormand The Constant Gardener (2005) - Rachel Weisz

Best Director


Winner:
	Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Ang Lee
Other Nominees:
	Cinderella Man (2005) - Ron Howard (I) Crash (2004/I) - Paul Haggis Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) - George Clooney King Kong (2005) - Peter Jackson (I) Munich (2005) - Steven Spielberg

Best Soundtrack


Winner:
	Walk the Line (2005)
Other Nominees:
	Elizabethtown (2005) Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) Rent (2005) The Producers (2005)

Best Song


Winner:
	Hustle & Flow (2005) - Terrence Howard - For the song "Hustle and Flow".
Other Nominees:
	Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Emmylou Harris - For the song "A Love That Will Never Grow Old". Elizabethtown (2005) - I Nine - For the song "Same In Any Language". Rent (2005) - Tracie Thoms; Jesse L. Martin; Wilson Jermaine Heredia; Idina Menzel; Rosario Dawson; Taye Diggs; Anthony Rapp; Adam Pascal - For the song "Seasons of Love". Transamerica (2005) - Dolly Parton - For the song "Travelin' Thru".

Best Documentary


Winner:
	La marche de l'empereur (2005)
Other Nominees:
	"Independent Lens" (1999) {Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (#8.22)} Grizzly Man (2005) Mad Hot Ballroom (2005) Murderball (2005)

Best Foreign-Language Film

Best Acting Ensemble


Winner:
	Crash (2004/I)
Other Nominees:
	Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) Rent (2005) Sin City (2005) Syriana (2005)

Best Writer


Winner:
	Crash (2004/I) - Paul Haggis; Robert Moresco
Other Nominees:
	Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Larry McMurtry; Diana Ossana Capote (2005) - Dan Futterman Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) - George Clooney; Grant Heslov The Squid and the Whale (2005) - Noah Baumbach

Best Comedy Movie


Winner:
	The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
Other Nominees:
	Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) Mrs Henderson Presents (2005) The Producers (2005) Wedding Crashers (2005)

Best Family Film (Live Action)


Winner:
	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
Other Nominees:
	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

Best Animated Feature


Winner:
	Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
Other Nominees:
	Chicken Little (2005) Corpse Bride (2005) Hauru no ugoku shiro (2004) Madagascar (2005)

Best Composer


Winner:
	Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) - John Williams (I)
Other Nominees:
	Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Gustavo Santaolalla Elizabethtown (2005) - Nancy Wilson (I) The New World (2005) - James Horner

Best Picture Made for Television


Winner:
	"Into the West" (2005)
Other Nominees:
	"Rome" (2005) {The Stolen Eagle (#1.1)} No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005) Warm Springs (2005) (TV)